That could have a devastating effect on the video game, because NBA 2K16's diehard core knows how to play a drive-and-kick game - particularly against inexperienced multiplayer opponents - to create that kind of space. To extend NBA 2K16's shooting accuracy to account for Curry, but condition it to defender proximity, would give ordinary players a godlike Curry status they don't deserve. That is, Curry may hit a lot of open shots (and plenty of old timers have complained about this), but more than 60 players in the NBA also hit more than 60 percent of their shots if no defender is within 12 feet.īottom line: You simply can't rate Curry's talent relative to the rest of the NBA O'Gallagher pointed out that NBA 2K16 also can't attribute Curry's effectiveness to defender proximity alone.

'He's still getting hit the same way as these other people taking these, quote-unquote, bad shots,' Wang said. So, in the video game, Curry actually shoots a worse percentage from extreme long range than he does in real life. Under NBA 2K's current performance engine, 'everyone in the league gets penalized at a certain distance in the same way,' Wang, the gameplay director, told the Press Row Podcast. The answer, at least for now, appears to be in a 'badge' or a special attribute applicable only to Curry or another player who matches his kind of talent for hitting long-long range shots - or perhaps more importantly, long-range shots with no one near him. Visual Concepts has to give these players a way of doing so without breaking a system their studio has spent almost two decades refining.

Those performances drive many to NBA 2K16 - casual and hardcore fans alike - to recreate Curry's feats. Curry is hitting a mind-boggling two-thirds of his shots from 28 to 50 feet - that's three feet behind the midcourt stripe - including this dazzler against Oklahoma City two weeks ago to cap a game that will be talked about for decades. Speaking to Bryan Wiedey in the latest Press Row Podcast, Visual Concepts' Scott O'Gallagher and Mike Wang tried to resolve Curry's once-in-a-generation talent without destroying the thing they and so many others have worked so hard to create. The next patch for NBA 2K16 - not its regular roster update, but a content update for the entire game - could be one that solely addresses one player: Stephen Curry, and the problem his real-world exploits pose to the balance of a video game.

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